Park Heights Renaissance will offer small grants for programs and events to neighborhood associations and organizations within the Park Heights Community, which is bounded north and south by Park Circle and Northern Parkway and east and west by Greenspring and Wabash Avenues, respectively.

After recording a 10 percent decline in Baltimore homicides and a drop in overall crime in 2014, city officials said Thursday that the Police Department would focus in 2015 on strengthening relations with the communities it serves.